Konstantin Kobets

Konstantin Ivanovich Kobets (16 July 1939-30 December 2012) was a general of the Soviet Army and the Russian Army.

Biography
Konstantin Kobets was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1939, and he joined the Soviet Army in 1956, became a CPSU member in 1959, graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1978, and became Deputy Chief of the General Staff in 1988. Kobets supported President Boris Yeltsin during the 1991 August Coup, and he served as Defense Minister of the Russian SFSR until its dissolution later that year. In 1997, he was sentenced to two years in prison for corruption and misuse of Defense Ministry funds.